Everything Contributed to the Downfall of Feudalism
“Except for the Kitchen Sink!”
Groups of students had to create metaphors that compared something involved in the decline of feudalism in Europe to something found in the kitchen. Below are samples from each of the posters the students made.
(If you can find the one your group came up with it, you can illustrate it with a small picture. Please make sure that you are not posting a picture of something that has already been posted. Pictures may be something Medieval or something found in the kitchen.)
Normandy is cake because everyone wants to control Normandy and everyone wants cake. The Black Death is lard because no one knew what it was or wanted it.
Egg beaters are cannons because an egg beater cracks eggs and a cannon cracks castle walls.
The Peasants’ Revolt is a cutting board because cutting boards are worn down and peasants are worn down by hard work and taxes. Even though they are worn down cutting boards remain strong and the peasants formed a strong rebellion.
The Black Death is smelly cheese because they both led to the decline of something whether it is your appetite or feudalism. Plus, they both make you sick.
Armor is a fridge because it is used to protect the body inside, and a fridge protects the food inside.
Military technology is cheese because they both get better with age.
Counter top courtesy of www.reneeswope.com
Medieval towns are counter tops because they both are areas that are generally cluttered.
The Hundred Years War is a spatula because after the war power flipped over to the common people and a spatula flips over food.
Peasants are silverware because they do most of the work and there are a lot of them.
The Magna Carta is a cheese grater because a cheese grater limits cheese and the Magna Carta limits power.
A blender is a manor because when a blender mixes everything it turns out good. A manor has peasants, nobles and knights that contribute to make life good.
Blender courtesy of www.goodhousekeeping.com
Soap is the Magna Carta because they both cleaned up a mess temporarily.
Taxes are spoiled milk because nobody likes them.
A cabinet is nationalism because a cabinet keeps all of the kitchen supplies together while nationalism keeps all the people together.
Tupperware is like armor because they both protect what’s inside.
A longbow is a spork because a spork is an advancement on a spoon and a fork just like a longbow is an advancement on a crossbow.
Feifs are wishbones because people fight over the wishbone just like the French and the English fought over Crecy.
The Pope is soda because if you shake soda, it will explode and if you got the Pope mad, you would get excommunicated. miraimages.photoshelter.com
A monarch is a mom because she owns the entire kitchen and delegates to lower people.
Lords are pasta because in the beginning they are hard and strong, but by the end of Feudalism they were weakened and soft.
A spoon is a cannon because spoons take down ice cream and cannons take down castles.
Feudalism is a clock because after a long time feudalism fell.
A survivor is a food scrap because it does not get eaten or killed by the military or the cook.
There is at least one quote from everyone's poster. Mr. Chester
Dear Mr. Chester,
Is there a quote from everyone's poster or just some of them?
-Caitlin M.
Everything Contributed to the Downfall of Feudalism
“Except for the Kitchen Sink!”
Groups of students had to create metaphors that compared something involved in the decline of feudalism in Europe to something found in the kitchen. Below are samples from each of the posters the students made.
(If you can find the one your group came up with it, you can illustrate it with a small picture. Please make sure that you are not posting a picture of something that has already been posted. Pictures may be something Medieval or something found in the kitchen.)
Normandy is cake because everyone wants to control Normandy and everyone wants cake.
The Black Death is lard because no one knew what it was or wanted it.
Egg beaters are cannons because an egg beater cracks eggs and a cannon cracks castle walls.
The Peasants’ Revolt is a cutting board because cutting boards are worn down and peasants are worn down by hard work and taxes. Even though they are worn down cutting boards remain strong and the peasants formed a strong rebellion.
The Black Death is smelly cheese because they both led to the decline of something whether it is your appetite or feudalism. Plus, they both make you sick.
Armor is a fridge because it is used to protect the body inside, and a fridge protects the food inside.
Military technology is cheese because they both get better with age.
Counter top courtesy of www.reneeswope.com
Medieval towns are counter tops because they both are areas that are generally cluttered.
The Hundred Years War is a spatula because after the war power flipped over to the common people and a spatula flips over food.
Peasants are silverware because they do most of the work and there are a lot of them.
Taxes are a cheese grater because they both shred away good.
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The Magna Carta is a cheese grater because a cheese grater limits cheese and the Magna Carta limits power.
A blender is a manor because when a blender mixes everything it turns out good. A manor has peasants, nobles and knights that contribute to make life good.
Soap is the Magna Carta because they both cleaned up a mess temporarily.
Taxes are spoiled milk because nobody likes them.
A cabinet is nationalism because a cabinet keeps all of the kitchen supplies together while nationalism keeps all the people together.
Tupperware is like armor because they both protect what’s inside.
A longbow is a spork because a spork is an advancement on a spoon and a fork just like a longbow is an advancement on a crossbow.
Feifs are wishbones because people fight over the wishbone just like the French and the English fought over Crecy.
The Pope is soda because if you shake soda, it will explode and if you got the Pope mad, you would get excommunicated.
miraimages.photoshelter.com
A monarch is a mom because she owns the entire kitchen and delegates to lower people.
Lords are pasta because in the beginning they are hard and strong, but by the end of Feudalism they were weakened and soft.
A spoon is a cannon because spoons take down ice cream and cannons take down castles.
Feudalism is a clock because after a long time feudalism fell.
A survivor is a food scrap because it does not get eaten or killed by the military or the cook.
There is at least one quote from everyone's poster. Mr. Chester
Dear Mr. Chester,
Is there a quote from everyone's poster or just some of them?
-Caitlin M.
Tee hee, some of these are really funny!
-Kayla